Fmr Deputy Attorney General: Gonzales Pushed Hospitalized Aschroft For Wiretap Authorization

AP LAURIE KELLMAN May 15, 2007 12:59 PM
President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program was so questionable that a top Justice Department official refused for a time to reauthorize it, sparking a battle with top White House officials at the bedside of an ailing attorney general, a Senate panel was told Tuesday.
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that he refused to recertify the program because Attorney General John Ashcroft had reservations about its legality just before falling ill with pancreatitis in March 2004.
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